[Oberon] font-family for a source.

[Hans Klaver]

> On 9 Aug. 2017 peter at easthope.ca <mailto:peter at easthope.ca> wrote:
> 
> From hklaver at dds.nl  Tue Jul 25 01:44:12 2017
>> The latter styles are used in two excellent books: The Oberon System 
>> by Martin Reiser and Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2 by 
>> Hanspeter Mössenböck. These books are the two best typeset Oberon 
>> books there are (imho). 
> 
> My copies aren't at hand.  Those sources are set in a serif font?  
> Times or similar?


The Oberon programming source texts in Reiser's book are set in the sans-serif font Helvetica Light, and in Mössenböck's book in Helvetica.

In case you might not know: Helvetica is Latin for "Swiss", and while Oberon originates from ETH Zürich in Switzerland the typeface Helvetica was also designed in Zürich, by Max Miedinger in 1956 for the Swiss firm Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei AG. The original name of this typeface was Neue Haas Grotesk.

Arial is an American Helvetica look-alike dating from 1982. It was designed for the Monotype Corporation to circumvent paying licences for Helvetica and was first packaged with MS Windows 3.1.

> Web authorities claim that sans-serif is better for a small display.  
> If the style tag in MediaWiki.Mod doesn't specify the font-family, 
> Wikimedia will produce a monospaced text.  To avoid that I think of 
> "font-family: varispaced" but no such thing in the CSS spec.   The 
> closest choices are serif and sans-serif.  Rather than impose one of 
> these I can set "font-family: serif, sans-serif".  Is there a better 
> answer?


I would suggest: "font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif"

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Hans Klaver
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